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TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day.

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KYXn6 TIL that some people are biologically incapable of dancing
neORr TIL: There are no green mammals and they cannot make green pigment.
lE41 TIL that Zach Galifianakis was approached by Nike to be in their advertising after the success of The Hangover. During the conference call, he broke the ice by asking, “So, do you guys still have 7-year-olds making your stuff?”
noR7 TIL that Gerald Ford is the only person ever to be Vice President, and later President, without being elected to either office.
l9Y1 TIL when Darwin was studying a Madagascar orchid whose flower had a foot long nectar filled tube, he hypothesized it had an as yet unknown pollinating moth with a proboscis of the same length, a length unprecedented at the time. Not until 21 years after his death was the moth finally discovered.